if it’s Flooded – you probably wont have a clue!
What do you think when you look at the image to the right? Is it safe to drive through that...
Read MoreLeave no-one behind – ethics of Warnings (Part three)
The United Nations has a phrase we all need to get used too: ”..leave no-one behind.” How important is that for emergency agencies issuing warnings? It’s a phrase heard frequently at UN meetings around the...
Read MoreBody Count: How Climate change is killing us.
Book review: It’s hard to remember now but its only 20 years since there were no such things as emergency warnings in Australia. When a bushfire broke out people at risk would smell the smoke; feel the heat, maybe receive...
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lake conjola…did the warnings fail?
Residents of the seaside town of Lake Conjola, in NSW, have told ABC 730 that they did not receive...
Read MorePeople didn’t fail during #Covid19, health authorities did.
HEALTH COMMUNICATORS SHOULD FOLLOW TRUSTED METHODS TO IMPROVE RESPONSE TO PANDEMICS AND OTHER HAZARDS TO SAVE LIVES By Ian Mannix May 1, 2020 Article written for Croakey News Australia is experiencing its worst natural hazard...
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Improvements needed to safeguard vulnerable people facing natural and man made hazards.
Submission to The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with...
Read MoreHealth ”information” or ”warnings”
The biggest killers of human beings are not natural disasters, but health related man-made disasters – smoking, TB, vaccine-preventable illnesses; mental health. Health authorities have rheems of information about these...
Read MoreEthical approach to warnings (part two): when we know, but fail to act.
The woman called ”Lifeline” during Black Saturday and said: ”I’m surrounded by flames. My husband just drove out the gate in our car and yelled at me: ”I hope you burn, bitch.” This was a...
Read MoreAn ethical approach can improve Effective Warnings – but it’s often missing.
Recently I have had an opportunity to discuss with an NGO a forecast heavy rain event, and was reminded that many organisations, including civil society-based NGOs and local government still do not see ”saving lives”...
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Personalised warnings work
(This item was written by Ronda Oberlin. It is not my habit to cut and paste other’s work...
Read MoreCanada has a new Alert system – which has all the failings of all the others
I’ve noticed that Canada has a new Alert system which includes the electronic media. It’s a welcome step, and I cant understand why it took so long to organise....
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Global disasters
- Drought is on going in China, India, Nepal, Pakistan December 2, 2020
- Drought is on going in Algeria, Morocco December 2, 2020
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